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Sharon puts up a fight for political survival
TEL AVIV: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s broad-based coalition collapsed on Wednesday, barely 24 hours after Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat won approval for his new cabinet by an unexpectedly wide margin.... 
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Deadly allure for African emigrants
MORONI: There is a small perilous stretch of Indian Ocean that separates Africa from Europe, a continental divide which thousands of clandestine emigrants try to bridge illegally every year, risking deportation...
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Lasers safer than rubber bullets: study
LONDON: Lasers are hazardous. A 20-watt light bulb will only damage your eyesight if you try to read by it, but even a two-watt laser could blind you. One of the...
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Turks, Kurds fall out over oil as election nears
ANKARA: Two of the United States’ closest strategic allies in its campaign against Saddam Hussein — Turkey and the autonomous Kurdish enclave in northern Iraq — have fallen out amid a...
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Pentagon offers camp for ‘unfit’ journalists
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon press corps has received a call-up for a military boot camp to prepare them to cover a war in Iraq, after US troops in Afghanistan complained of having...
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Anti-US rhetoric no more attracts Iranians
TEHRAN: The gentle music piped around the Iranian capital’s latest cultural exhibition sounds innocent enough, until you listen to the lyrics....
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US exerting pressure on inspector: Ritter
BERLIN, Nov 1: Former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter said on Friday the United States was trying to manipulate Hans Blix, the head of the weapons inspections team waiting for a...
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US shipping arms to Gulf
LONDON, Nov 1: The US navy is seeking more merchant ships to carry a large quantity of ammunition and additional pieces of armour to the Gulf for arrival this month and...
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Sharon offers foreign ministry to Netanyahu
TEL AVIV, Nov 1: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Friday offered the post of foreign minister to his main rival in the right-wing Likud party, Binyamin Netanyahu, an Israeli diplomatic...
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Radicals win 50pc of seats in Bahrain polls
MANAMA, Nov 1: Religious radicals, mostly Sunnis, have grabbed nearly half the seats in the new parliament elected in Bahrain in the first legislative polls in three decades, official results showed...
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US opposes ban on Turkish party
WASHINGTON, Nov 1: The United States said on Thursday that it opposed bans on peaceful political parties such as the proposed ban on Turkey’s Justice and Development Party, which Turkey’s top...
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Diana’s butler acquitted of theft
LONDON, Nov 1: Princess Diana’s butler Paul Burrell was acquitted on Friday of stealing her belongings after revelations from Queen Elizabeth undermined the prosecution’s case....
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Al Jazeera plans to broadcast in English
LONDON, Nov 1: The Arabic television news station Al Jazeera is planning to target the English language market for the first time, a British daily said on Friday....
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Unesco to hold conference on cyberspace
PARIS, Nov 1: The Unesco says that it is to hold an international conference on “Freedom of Expression in Cyberspace” here on Nov 15-16....
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Colombo, LTTE agree on aid flow
NAKHON PATHOM (Thailand), Nov 1: Sri Lankan negotiators meeting for a second round of peace talks made an early breakthrough on Friday on rebuilding their war-ravaged nation with foreign funding, even...
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US used deadly sarin in Hawaii test: Pentagon
WASHINGTON, Nov 1: The US military in 1967 conducted tests using the deadly sarin nerve agent in a Hawaiian rain forest as part of a sweeping Cold War series of chemical...
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